Crossing the Napa River on the famed Brazos drawbridge, newly acquired Northwestern Pacific MP15 NWP 1501 leads a short train on a rare Wednesday run home from the California Northern at Lombard. ... (more)

Priority perishables destined for the interchange with CSX at Chicago for movement to the East Coast has conquered the stiff Eastbound grade of Donner Pass and slowly glides down the back slope of... (more)

California Northern Railroad's Woodland Switcher returns North to its namesake town with 14 cars of Northbound traffic, passing a set of turned US&S searchlight signals at Milepost 79.9 on the Wes... (more)

Wildflowers adorn the Feather River Canyon, while an Eastbound vegetable meal empty crawls over the Rock Creek.

The first Eastbound ACE of the afternoon rush rolls through the Alviso marshland right on the advertised.

Union Pacific's hot Global 2, IL to Oakland, CA priority UPS/LTL intermodal chases down an unusual January thunderstorm, that brought hail and strong winds to the Bay Area. All is calm now, except... (more)

Deep in the heart of gold country, a quartet of General Electric products owned by the BNSF Railway guide 10,397 tons of priority manifest out of Tunnel no. 25, on a moist Winter morning in the he... (more)

UP's hotshot Z train from Global 2 to Oakland makes easy work of the one-percent uphill grade through Hirschdale on the East slope of Donner Pass.

Four big GE's hustle a Logistics Park, IL to Oakland, CA intermodal train over the 80-foot tall and 1680-foot long Muir Trestle on a beautiful New Years Day.

The day after Christmas is one of the busiest days for vehicle and foot traffic in San Francisco, as evidence here in the Fishermans Wharf, as PCC #1075 threads its way through the insane congesti... (more)

97 ethanol empties from East Oakland, CA to Shamrock, KS charge up Donner Pass, which has seen more snow this season then the pass did all of last season! El Nino sure is promising for the Califor... (more)

Dropping down Donner Pass at the famed Yuba Gap, passengers aboard the Westbound California Zephyr must be enjoying the views of freshly fallen snow...

It's not SP's beets with a brace of SD9's but a reposition auto rack from Milpitas, CA to Nogales, AZ will do. UP's Coast Sub south of San Jose has been dwindled down to baretables and empty autos... (more)

Crawling along at the posted track speed of 10 miles per hour, PSA&P engineer Brock Hansen has UP 8852 and 58 empty garbage cars under control as they approach McCleary on the former Northern Paci... (more)

When the meteorologists in the Seattle area started talking about a Winter Storm Warning on Stevens Pass, it made contributors Dale Skyllingstad and Drew Mitchem and myself pack up and make the de... (more)